It is Tuesday and gunboats are visible on the Cumberland River from Nannie's home. Gen. Joe Hooker is beaten; however, Gen. Stonewall Jackson is severely and A. P. Hill is slightly wounded. Nannie wants word from her brother. She hopes that no bad...

Letter by Christopher Ammons describing a road clearance operation at Thunder IV. Both squads patrolled all day, then took up a night defensive position on armored personnel carriers. He writes about trying to kill a rat ("some as big as cats")...

Watkins, writing to his sister, is getting impatient about how little correspondence he receives. Fears that some have concluded he is "not worth writing to." The regiment has not been paid since it returned to camp. According to Gov. Kirkwood...

Letter to Governor Austin Peay (1923-1927) from Noel Gaines, a Kentucky citizen, praising Governor Peay and the Tennessee Legislature for the passage of the anti-evolution law (the Butler Act). He takes the Kenucky Legislature to task for not...

Pvt. J. T. Bass , Co. C, 4th (McLemore's) Cav., CSA, wrote to his wife, Martha, informing her that he was not well and suffered from the cold and a "bowel complaint." He heard that Columbia and Shelbyville, Tennessee both had cases of smallpox. He...

It is Sunday and brother Ben was captured the first day of fighting at Gettysburg. Nannie thinks that those prisoners who are able to write to their family should at least mention other captured prisoners as well. Ed Bringhurst did so. Ben Hering...

Cpl. Gage, Co. G, 96th Ill. Inf. Regt., was from a family of ardent abolitionists. He fought in the Chattanooga Campaign, returning to his camp after a "very successful crusade." Gage hopes rumors of the war's end are true, but many "newspaper...

Four-page letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to husband Samuel expresses anxiety over not receiving a letter from him and the fact that this worry has infiltrated her dreams. She writes of receiving visitors, of the children's exploits, and of managing...